House
Speaker Paul Ryan, Montana House member Ryan Zinke, and other phony
conservative Republicans have written Barack Obama a blank check for
EVERYTHING he wanted in the 2016 Omnibus bill. (Thank you, Montana
Senators Steve Daines (R) and Jon Tester (D), for voting against this
egregiously evil bill.)

Despite
all the conservative rhetoric proceeding from the mouths of the Republicans
in Congress, the GOP passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill that grants
Barack Obama EVERYTHING he requested. Remember, the House of Representatives
completely controls the purse strings of the federal government. The
White House can spend absolutely NOTHING without the House of Representatives
signing the check. And that's exactly what Speaker Ryan, Rep. Ryan
Zinke, and the other phony conservatives in Congress did: they wrote
Barack Obama a check for EVERYTHING he wanted.

In
his nationally syndicated radio talk show on December 17, longtime
Republican apologist Rush Limbaugh said, “Everything Obama wanted,
everything he asked for, he got. You go down the list of things, it's
there.

“And
this is causing some people to wonder if they just dreamed all that
stuff about Boehner resigning. And then other people are wondering
if they even dreamed all that stuff about the Republicans winning
the largest number of seats they've had in Congress since the Civil
War. We had two midterm elections in 2010 and 2014, which were landslide
victories for the Republican Party. The Democrat Party lost over a
thousand seats nationwide in just those two elections. People went
to the polls in droves wanting exactly what was rubber-stamped last
night (or what will be) stopped.

“And
instead they showed up in record numbers and they it turned out and
they just defeated Democrats down the ballot. In the process, they
elected Republicans to stop this. And now the Republicans have the
largest number of seats in the House they've had in Congress since
the Civil War. And it hasn't made any difference at all. It is as
though Nancy Pelosi is still running the House and Harry Reid is still
running the Senate. ‘Betrayed’ is not even the word here.
What has happened here is worse than betrayal. Betrayal is pretty
bad, but it's worse than that.

“This
was out-and-out, in-our-face lying, from the campaigns to individual
statements made about the philosophical approach Republicans had to
all this spending. There is no Republican Party! You know, we don't
even need a Republican Party if they're gonna do this. You know, just
elect Democrats, disband the Republican Party, and let the Democrats
run it, because that's what's happening anyway.”

Here
is a partial list of what Obama requested and received from this so-called
Republican congress:

1.
Funding for Obama's executive amnesty program
2. Funding for “Sanctuary” cities
3. Funding for all of Obama's refugee programs
4. Funding for all of Obama's immigration programs
5. Funding for Obama's illegal alien resettlement programs
6. Funding for the release of criminal illegal aliens imprisoned in
the United States
7. Funding for tax credits for illegal aliens
8. Eliminates spending caps
9. Funding for Planned Parenthood abortion services
10. Funding for ALL of Obama's climate change programs
11. Funding for Obamacare
12. Funding for INCREASED government spying on U.S. citizens
13. Funding for ALL of the U.S. wars around the world
14. Funding for the increased militarization of American police agencies
and the growing federal Police State

The
list goes on and on.

Rush
was right: there would have been absolutely NO DIFFERENCE in the Omnibus
bill that passed Congress had Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the Democrats
been in a majority. No difference at all.

The
two-party system is a JOKE. No! It's more than a joke: it is a total
and absolute SHAM.

You
know things are bad when longtime Republican disciple Franklin Graham
quits the GOP and when the quintessential Republican apologist Rush
Limbaugh says the GOP should “disband.”

Elections
have become moot. No matter which party assumes control of Congress
and the White House, the Constitution is ignored and trampled and
the American people are betrayed and sold out.

I’m
wondering if the last chance America had at redemption was the candidacy
of Ron Paul in 2012. Christian people, especially, vehemently rejected
Ron’s message of constitutional government, sound economics,
and a non-interventionist foreign policy. So-called conservatives
nominated big-government neocons the last two presidential elections:
John McCain and Mitt Romney. And then they wonder why the liberal
Democrat Barack Obama was elected and re-elected. DUH!

Rank
and file conservatives are MAD! They are sick and tired of being betrayed
and sold down the river. They are sick and tired of trading neocons
like John Boehner for neocons like Paul Ryan. That, in a nutshell,
explains the surging candidacy of Donald Trump.

Trump
has dared to call out the Republican leadership for the establishment,
big-government hacks they are. And he has enough money to run a viable
national campaign without groveling before the GOP donor class.

While
I truly like the anti-establishment character of Trump’s campaign,
I believe the desperation of conservative voters is being channeled
in a dangerous direction. I have heard nothing to suggest that Donald
Trump has any inkling of, appreciation for, or fidelity to the U.S.
Constitution. In fact, much of his campaign rhetoric--and, unfortunately,
much of the rhetoric that has made him so popular--is blatantly unconstitutional.

Trump
is the owner and CEO of a mega international business conglomerate.
As such, he snaps his fingers and subordinates jump. His word is law.
That’s all well and good for a private business, but that’s
NOT how a constitutional republic operates.

In
a desperate attempt to break free from the neocon establishment ensconced
atop the Republican Party, conservatives appear willing to embrace
anyone who will challenge the insiders--even if that someone runs
roughshod over the Constitution.

In
America, when we elect civil magistrates, there is only ONE criterion
we should look for: will he or she faithfully "preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States.” It's as simple
as that.

Listen
to Thomas Jefferson: "In questions of power, then, let no more
be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by
the chains of the Constitution."

Instead,
most Americans are consumed with political parties and personalities.
They need to be consumed with the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

When
one wants to identify a phony dollar bill, he doesn't study the counterfeits;
he studies the original. The Constitution is the original measurement
by which ALL candidates and incumbents should be judged.

The
reason our politicians from BOTH parties have taken us to the precipice
of the abyss is because the citizens of this country have failed to
hold them accountable to the Constitution. It shouldn't matter whether
the candidate or incumbent has a "R" or "D" behind
his or her name, or whether they call themselves "conservative"
or "progressive." All that should matter is, will they "preserve,
protect, and defend” the U.S. Constitution.

Learn
the Constitution and Bill of Rights (and Declaration of Independence),
and gauge every magistrate or would-be magistrate by that standard.
Try it.

What
you will learn is just how few of our politicians and political candidates
have even the remotest idea of what the Constitution says. And neither
do they give a rat's hindquarters about what the Constitution says.
That's why they never mention it on the campaign trail, don't read
it, don't plan to enforce it when elected, and are, thereby, disqualified
from public office. They are COUNTERFEITS--no matter how likeable
they are or from which side of the political aisle they hail.

Right
or left, conservative or liberal, Christian or non-believer: forget
it. "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence
in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

There
is a quick remedy for what ails America: elect constitutionalists
to public office. In my view, Rand Paul is the only constitutionalist
candidate for President in 2016 from either major party.

First,
I believe the biggest threats to liberty we face have nothing to do
with Islamic terrorism. We have far more to fear from those miscreants
in Washington, D.C., and from the international bankers at the Federal
Reserve than any radical Muslim. Hence, all of the fearmongering about
Muslim jihad and Sharia Law in America only plays into the hands of
the globalists who are orchestrating all of this madness.

The
words of Daniel Webster are especially fitting at this point:

"There
is no nation [or group of terrorists] on earth powerful enough to
accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all,
will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to
the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.
I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may
place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail
properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be
made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their
own undoing."

Second,
I am absolutely convinced that the greatest threats to our liberty
are: 1) the neocon wars of aggression around the world--especially
in the Middle East, and 2) a burgeoning Police State here at home.

I
have now had plenty of time to examine the candidates regarding his
or her commitment to defeating these two great threats to our liberty,
and there is only ONE Republican candidate that sees these threats
and would use the power of the Oval Office to defeat them--or at least
curtail them: that candidate is RAND PAUL.

I
know that Rand is not his dad. And I am not nearly as excited about
Rand as I was Ron. And there are several issues with which I disagree
with Rand. But I firmly believe Rand gets the whole neocon war issue
and would put a stop to it if he were President. In this regard, Rand
might be the ONLY major party presidential candidate who could potentially
avert WWIII. I further believe Rand gets the Zionist issue and would
not be a patsy for the Israeli lobby--his trip to Israel and that
photo at the Wailing Wall notwithstanding.

I
also believe Rand truly sees the growing Police State in this country
and would rein in these out-of-control federal departments of [In]Justice
and Homeland [In]Security. And, yes, Rand voted AGAINST the 2016 Omnibus
bill.

In
my view, none of the other candidates would do anything significant
to change America's foreign policy or to rein in the growing Police
State in our country.

By
giving Donald Trump so much negative publicity, the mainstream media
is actually propelling his campaign. The candidates that the media
truly despise and want to defeat are the ones they ignore--which is
EXACTLY what they did (as much as possible) to Ron Paul’s campaign--and
are doing now to Rand Paul’s campaign. That, by itself, speaks
volumes.

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The
neocons within the GOP (I’m not talking about Donald Trump here)
are no better than liberal Democrats. In fact, in some ways they are
much worse. Phony conservatives like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Montana
House member Ryan Zinke are as much a threat to our liberties as liberals
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. The blank check these neocons gave to
Barack Obama is only the most recent example of this reality.

Absent
a presidential victory by a constitutionalist such as Ron or Rand
Paul, the preservation of liberty is going to eventually come down
to free and independent states reclaiming it for themselves, or possible
secession and/or a regional breakaway from Washington, D.C., or some
kind of direct intervention from Heaven. But what the passage of the
2016 Omnibus bill absolutely proves is that it will NOT come from
the national Republican Party.

[NOTE:The forgoing article is the opinion of the author and is not
necessarily the opinion of NewsWithViews.com, it's employees, representatives,
or other contributing writers.]

Chuck Baldwin is a syndicated
columnist, radio broadcaster, author, and pastor dedicated to preserving
the historic principles upon which America was founded. He was the 2008
Presidential candidate for the Constitution Party. He and his wife,
Connie, have 3 children and 8 grandchildren. Chuck and his family reside
in the Flathead Valley of Montana. See Chuck's complete bio here.

The
neocons within the GOP (I’m not talking about Donald Trump here)
are no better than liberal Democrats. In fact, in some ways they are
much worse. Phony conservatives like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Montana
House member Ryan Zinke are as much a threat to our liberties as liberals
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.